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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1959.
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Comment POISON INSECTICIDES: 13 Killed In British
N
the
Of The TWO MEN IN COURT
Day
LABOUR'S
DILEMMA
OTHING
Remanded MARGARET
now husi come out of A Labour Party
apparently
con.
ference at Blackpool and there is no evidence that the Socialists intend to alter their chartered course of nationalisation. The conference
Wnx
held
ostensibly to carry out an "agonising reappraisal" of the events which led to the party's third straight ele flon defeat. Mr Gaitskerl] openly
admits that the
threat of nationalisation caused them to lexic vates!
but he still intenda to
For
7 Days
man
appeared in Kowloon Court this morning charged with possession of a poi- insecticide sonous called Folidol. And in Central Magis
tracy another man was charged with posses sion of Parathion, described as a pol- sonous ingredient used in insecticides.
stick to the plan pa no one? The man, Chan Tal-wal, 37, had suggested that it was an employee of the Chan Chua the main cause of their de; Chiu Compaay feat.
The fact that it did cout votes does not appear Lo worry him,
attitude
of 95 Chrung
Sha Wan Ioad, was charged with possession of "Part I poisons--namely 4 bollies and 3
ins of Folidel E 605."
nt
130 21.02. 01
The charge stated that the which is hard to under-¦ defendant had possession of the stand as surely the major-Insecticide
indicated November 28 at 05 Cheung Sha Ity of electors that they were ngainst Wan Road and he had no au-
nationalisation.
Muddled
Gaitske]}
Mto explain all this away
thorisation from the Director
of Medical and Health Services. No plea was taken and the Magistrate, Mr 1. M. S. Don- Belly remanded him for seven dnya.
out a Beenca
OL
His bail of $500 was extended endeavours to the date of the next heuring. At Central, a 34-year-old by blaming the electors for man, Weng Yan-ylu, ut Wong Seed Company in being muddled in their own! Yuk Hop minds about the party's Peiho Street, was accused future attitude and the un-possesion of Parathion" with- popularity of some of the He was remanded for seven existing
nationalised in days by Mr T. L Yang. dustries. The Labour leader is burying
his head in the sand, clog ging his cars against the sound of hard facts and at the same time Insulting the; Intelligence of the country. Many brave words have been
used to
the de- faces the fout, but what
leadership
excuse
now in a hardį
and desperate struggle to avoid the total disintegra-
tion of the party.
Opinions
MRight,
R Douglas Jay, of the wants nation- alisation dropped and the] substitution of "Labour"
It is alleged that Wong bad in his possession a certain quan- tity of Part 1 Poleons without
and without uthorization of the Director of
il
licence
the
Medical and Health Services.
No plea was taken.
RUNAWAY
GIRL
NOW UNDER GOVT PROTECTION
by another title. While un the Left, Mr Frank Cousins claims that it would be A wrong to trim Labour's Bails in any prevailing electoral wind."
15-year-old girl who had in the Wailed
FINCHER RETURNS
"I's wonderful to be home again," said Mi Margaret Fincher, popular member of the younger set and a well-known Colony hockey star, when she arrived in Hongkong you. terday following a fort- night's stay
hoepital
after being Injured in the bridge collapse during the Sixth Macao Grand Prix.
A
MI Fincher. released from hospital on Saturday, was welcomed back by a large crowd of friends at the Macao ferry wharf. new hairdo skilfully hid the scar on the back of her head,
nothing bul Praise for the hospital sinfi and the scan authorities who "did everything"
Khe had
to
make her star in hospita{ as enmfortable an possible,
HONGKONG
CONTROLS
WALLED CITY
The Full Court this morning refused an application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of o prisoner, Wong Hon; alleged to have com- mitted a murder in the Kowloon Walled City.
In their judgment, the Full Court ruled that apart from the of the aspecta well establisheel can the constitutional
doctrine of act of State' the assertion that the City of Kow- Icon was an 'Alsatia' wherrin the Queen's writ did not run, could not be supported,
U.S. Now 5 Years
Behind Russia
In Rockets
Washington, Nov. 29. Experts said here today in the light of the sixth successive United States failure to launch a moon rocket that it would take five years for America to catch up with the Soviet Union in the space race.
STRIKE IN
UK POWER PLANTS
London, Nov. 29, A wildcat strike by 14,000 station electric
pawer workers threatened to plunge much of England into darkness on Sunday night. Employees
33 Al stations scattered over a wide aren of the country planned a walkouts series of 24-hour culminating at midnight,
They are demanding a speed up in union-employer negulla- ions for a 40-hour week and longer vaculions.
power
The workers
now work a 44-hour week and
take up
to three weeks' vaca-
tion a year-
an
Lieut-General
M James Gavin, former chief of the Army's Research and Develop- inent Division, said in a magns zine article: "We must face up to one fact: An all-out national effort is required to overtake the Russians. With such effort we could the the score within five years. Certainly we are not making anything like that effort right now.
"The support the effort de nanded of us in outspacing the Russians; our ecotomy imeit be totally geared to this missile- space te, it we don't realise this fact and accept the challen
only for ourselves but ge, not for the peace of the world, we will go down to oblivion as a union no preoccupied with the of the moment that pleasures we were unable to see the possi- bilities of the future.
An Opinion
Explosion
New Delhi, Nov. 29.
At least 13 people were killed and two hundred injured when a store of explosives caught fire in Jamurai bazar 10 miles from Asansol, West Bengal, tonight, according to official reports.
The reports said the store caught fire after gas ignited in an nd- joining welding shop.
Surrounding shops crowded with market day customers were rapidly enveloped flames.
In
The 200 injured were said to have been burn- ed in the rush for safely.
All were taken to nearby hospitals, and 22 of 'them were re- ported critically hurt. -Reuter.
Protest
Against
H-Bomb
Oxford, Nov. 28. About 700 persons took part On Sunday in an eight-hour march lo protest against H- hemb nights from the US, alr bae at Brize Norton,
The marchers, led by a jazz. from band, included studenla Oxford, - Cambridge. and other universities Nearly half of the wax demonstrators were women and
Children
An official of the
National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
(NASA) The 24-hour strike threatened ministrailon to shut off efectfelty supplies quoted by the Washington Star to milions of homes in three as saying: "When I joined the of England's biggest cities, agency a year ago, we all were The protest was organized by
how it cripple railroads and blackout talking about
would the Oxford Area Committee for radio and
take a year to catch up. pro-
Now Nuclear Disarmament. , television
The do- we are talking about grammes.
Avemonstrators also protested years." EMERGENCY SERVICES
against thre stock-piling and The science writer of the testing of. H-bombs and called Strike leader George Wake. an admitted Communist, said Washington Star gave It ag his fo a closing of missile and power stations
London. opinion, in
and Birmingham, Manchester
On the constitutional aspects | Southampton will be affected of the case the Full Court ruled by the walkout, that the authorities were con- But Wake said the strikers clusive thot in the sphere of will be prepared w muintain municipal law, it was not possi-supplies for hospitals and other ble to establish that the jurisdir-
emergency services. tion of the Court did not exist or that it was subject to some limitation arising from the mode of acquisition of the territory in question.
Unqualified
A
7
of
The strike is in defiance the advice of union leader's who say that negotiations for shorter working week and longer vacations are "proceeding satisfactorily."
piles.-APT.
Cape
After interviewing bomber bases. Fientist here and ot Canaveral, Florida, and pollú- Before the march to Oxford, cians in Washington, that the 50 of the protesters paraded for United States would be out of 24 hours at the main gate of the space race for the next two the air base, They carried a which sold: "U.S. Friendship Not U.S. Bemba."-- He said it would be well into | AP. the 1000's before the United Staler could perfora feats in space that the Russians already had accomplished.
least and possibly for banner as long as five years.
"Russia's two-to-ve-year lead in space is secure for 1 long time to come,"
the writer, Willian Hines, said.
The Atlas-Able rocket which falled
function when
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The Central Electricity Gen- "In the face of the explicit rating Board meanwhile warn- ed people cut down an elec- Juris- assertion of unqualiñed
the Crown, with ricity consumption, bu! and it diction by
was "reasonably confident" it launched from Cape Canaveral respect to the area of the City could
maintain essential sup-1st Thursday was the
United been sold
of Kowloon contained in the Order-In-Council of 1890.
States' Last chance for City to become a prosti- cannot be successfully coulend-
spectacular moonshot for sconc time to come. ordered this ed that the laws of the Colony tute, was morning to be put under do not prevail and the Courts
of the of the Colony the protection
jurisdiction therein. Social Welfare Office until she is 27.
last
in the Walled City,
arc without
was
Ex
He
had
KRAKATOA
ERUPTING
canle crater of Krakatos lying
These are not mere differ- ences of opinion but basic divergencies which do not
The application was made by admit of any compromise
Mr J. N. Smart, or Wilkinso and it one school of thought
Djakarta, Nov. 30. A Hongkong Policewoman in and Grist, on behalf of Wong eventually prevails over the
Airline pilots today reported pector, Klauny Hoh, pitached Hon, who had been committed other the present Labour the Police Headquarters, told for trial on a charge of murder seeing bis eruptions on the vol- Parly must break open at Mr E, Garcia ut the Juvenile the seams which are cur Court, Kowloon, that the girl Counsel for Wong, Mir A. H. between the lands of Sumatra rently straining at the had on several occasions
Suffiad, had contended pre-and Java, viously that Wong
Scanty Gret reports sald the threads, and disintegrate. rear, run away from home,
volcano was erupling `regularly Mr Jay
"Several timice she had been Chinese maintains that the
rational. party must be "open-mind- located in Ping Shan, New Ter argued that the Peking Conven at two hour intervals, but these could not be confirmed imme- ed" in formulating a
ritories, and brought back to hertion between Great Britain and
diately.. father and was warned not to China of 1898 excepted the modern policy which is
Krakatoa erupted in August, run away again.
Walled Cily
Teserved 1883,
world's of the realistic and acceptable to
"She did run away again on jurisdiction within that area to greatest natural upheavals. Vol- the electorate.
August 31 and her father rèport- | Metals of China. He sub-canic ash was showered for hun- ed this to the Police the next niited that the British Courts dreds of miles, and the sound day.
in Hongkong could not exercise i was heard 8,000 miles away "Enquiries were made and it | jurisdiclion over Wong
ini Reuter. was discovered that she has been inspect of up
offence com- forced to become a prostitute. mited within the, Walled City.
"Two men were arrested and Mr Sufflad had also submitted and not the sentenced to six months in gaol that the Order-In-Council of the
of a for selling the girl to a brothel following year, which bigoted acceptance policy which cannot bend earlier this month."
Bigoted
now
THIS la the realist's ap
proach
or
revoked
¤T
'GRAND DUKEDOM' FOR RUSSIAN
Dijon, Burgundy, Nov. 29.
Chinese" jurisdiction provided in Mr Garcia told her parents the Convention, had not been with the wind when the that the application was made ratified by Chinese, Government political climate of opinion only for the prolection of the cand Wong was at forty to Mr Sergei Vinogradov, the warrants a change.
question the validity of the |Order-In-Council.
If giri.
Mr Galbekell is ever to be
Prime Minister he will have
Yet the Left Wing wish to Strike Planned
to plan accordingly.
perpetuate the present
polley. They would be well
Paris, Nov. 20.
Submission
The Acting Attorney-General, Mr. Arthur Hooton, QC, sub- milted that whatever might
the
There are no more big rockets avaliable with the
capacity to match the
Luniks.
necessary
One Killed,
Four Injured
In Car Crash
PAN AM
JET CLIPPER CARGO
O
FASTEST DELIVERY ΤΟ LEADING MARKETS
OF
N THE
WORLD
Company
To Run Pools
From Macao
The "pools" are moving nearer to Hongkong. Starting March next year forecasters will be able to send their coupons to Macao instead of Britain.
Home
Floating
晕
Away
New York, Nov. 29.
A thunderous crash and the wood crunch of splintering awakened Nat Wynn from a sound sleep early today In his eight-room home on a Long Island beachfront, Wynn, 45, heard his wife, Edith
call out frantically.
"Nat, come
quick," she said "Our living room and the den are floating away."
21,
their
The Wynns, joined by their
daughter, Marjorie, in horror 23 watched Uving room furallure and television set, plano, radio, various odds and ends bobbed out toward the open Atlantic, along with the debris from their living room and den.
Fearing their entire Atlantic beach home would collapse, the family fled in their night clothes out the back door, since the front door had been washed away, along with the lawn.
ji
Asian Football Pools pre establishing headquarters In the Pertuguese colony. The com→ pany had hoped to operate from petition 10 Hongkong but a Government was rejected.
of
The company issued the flot- lowing statement this morning.
"After years of preparation, belting
English football matches and the forecast results, has Ennily become a reality here because the largest promoters of such pools in Eng- land will start Asian Football Fools in Southeast Asia with headquarters in Blacao, This new organisation will operate from March 1000,
Laws Amended
"Gambling laws in Great Bri- tain were amended in 1052 in order to legalise football pools. The promoters of Asian Foot- ball Pools assumed that long- kong, being British Colony, undoubtedly would be in line with the legislation cructed by the Houses of Parliament in England. The promoters start- ed, therefore, in 1950, pre- liminary
for -Investigatiomas similar enterprise in Hongkong, only to discover,
their astonishment, that the gambling ordinance of 1942 has never been amended in Hawkong. And they encountered strong
from opposition
the Jockey Club which Jealously guards its monopoly:
a
"Nevertheless, a petition was submitted to the Governor-in-
Council in August 1037 and this petition remained unans- vered until March 1953 when notisleation of its rejection was made known to the promoters,
"It is known that Royal Commission was appointed to They rushed to the home of study the gambling laws of
neighbours and called police.
Hongkong cometime An investigation disclosed that 1958, but the findings were not
મ
*
in late
"Despite the rejection of the
huge dredge opening channel had edged too close published. to shore and had undermined the Wynns' home.---UPI,
U.S. Serviceman
Charged With Attemped Illegal Export
petition, the promoters con tinued their efforts to establish football pools in Southeast Asia and as an outcome of Jengthy consultations with the govċTI- ments of Portugal and "Macab, will commence the company operation In March 1960.
This is most sincerely regret- ted by the promoters, because Hongkong urgently needs con- siderable revenue to meet refugee needs. It is professionally esti- mated that the Asian Football Pools would have yielded annual- ly three million dollars in tax and conservatively two million for social welfare, apart from a huge revenue in postal services and business tax. Furthermore, 400 have at least, would persons, been locally employed initially.
Rejected
An American serviceman William Conrad Greene, 37, based on the U.S. Navy station ship in Hongkong
USS the
Monroe, was
"For the original petition to be charged this morning in rejected by Government is far- Kowloon Court with at cical, because already there
agent for English football One perton Russian
was killed and tempted illegal export of a four
pools in Hongkong and thou- others injured at about
today when the pri50-gold bars without a per- 3.35 am. vale car in which they were rait and attempted illegal travelling crashed into an iron export of 200 wrist watches, foundation pile which was being moved to a building site in Castle Peak Road near its june- tion with Yu Chau Street.
⚫ Chan
A second payload, similar to that lost in the sea last Tues- day, is avaliable to send up near the moon but there is no Allas-Able three-stage rocket available do launch it.
Any such rocket would have to be diverted from some other mill- tary or civilian project already determined to be essential, the Washington Star sald-Reuter.
Shah Gives Jewels To Fiancee
Teheran, Nov. 20. The Shah of Iran hus, pre- Soviet Ambassador to sented a beautiful set of jewels France, was created to the young girl who will be«. "Grand Duke of the West" come his Queen,
Farah Diba's family cold to- amidst the great wind-day the had been given an producing chateaux here claborate blue case containing a this weekend.
necklace, earrings, bracelet, Although *presentative of brooch and rings of diamonds, advised to follow in the Air traffic will stop next have been the effect, af. the the *East!" which officially | mojihires and rubles. steps of Mr Bevan who saw Wednesday throughout France Convention.
The Shah and Farah-had n Order-in-frowns on aristocratie titles, Mr- when weathermen and airport Council, being clear manifesta- Vinogradov blithely accepted the the writing on the wall,
private- lunch today, after they With the possibility that ho security officials go on a 24-hour tions of the exercise of the pre-honour on being assured that decided the weather was
100 rogative, were "acts of State the Dukedom is "ymbolic.” ploudy for pleasant, økling. would become deputy leader strike.
All trade unions" concerned binding on the Court and ast wis, beatown by the Government officials said the| Mr Bevan threw the aboli- tion of the H-bomb over- today ordered the men to join cclusive declaration of the Burgundy wine producers at Shah has been spending most of the nationwide strike of civil jurisdiction donferred therBON,” gain dinner in Dijon low night, his time with Farah, despite board and adopted a more servants and public service The Full Court comprised the when Mr Vinogéndoe. (Vinograd many stude 'chullco, --- cautious line. It is there workers due on that day to Chief Justice, Sir Michael
Rurkan for grape) The Queen Mother mean- fore not beyond the bounds protest against inadequacy of Hogan, Mr Justice W. A Bisir- solemnly undertook to decena whlie, was reported today to be that he may eventually, do pay increases budgeted by the Ken and Mr. Justice H. H. "Burgundy, her set and her prepering to move la
· Government-iteuler.
Mills-Owens,* *- the same with Bociallaro.
summer palace-UPI
tenditionis, "--Reuter,
ner
sasis of dollars are, remitted every week to England, with no resulting beneat to Hongkong.
"Last year Britain's government received from the pools £16 million and it is an established fact 94 per cent of pools intake comes from the working class. With the Asian Football Pools, as little as 10 cents can be In-
the range of Donnelly remanded project within
until The four injured persons now Greene
tomorrow "The promoters of Asian Foot receiving treatment in hospital while further charges are ball Pools deeply regret, there are 43-year-old Fuk Yue of 354 Reclamation Street, rooftop:
The offences are alleged to have taken place in the departure hall of Kai Tak Sang, aged 48, of No. Airport yesterday. 32 Mong Kok Road, 2nd floor, died on arrival at Kowloon The Magistrate Mr I. M. vested, thereby bringing the Hospital.
S.
prepared.
everyone.
fore, that millions of dollars will hot now be available as a fur-
alleviating hardship in Hong- kong.
Fuk Tak. 41. of 1033 Canton Greene is on ball of US, ther, substantial contribution for Road, 1st Boor; Ho On, 25, of 19
$200. Peking Road, 3rd Door and Yuen Kan-pul, 32, woman, of 208 Fuk Wah Street, ground floor,
Inspector S. L. Fung prosecuted.
"A great opportunity, there- fore, has been lost," the state- ment concluded.
Sampson And Delilah Couldn't Agree
A
London, Nov. 29. five-foot, three-loch Sampson and his five-foot, eight-inch Delilah were nhora of their love today because Sampson wanted to be the strongman, în their lives.
Joe Sampson, of Karachi, hagrædd. With ・・ Patricia Allen after 15 days of
fighting over who would be boss that they might as well call off plans to get married.
P
Bald Joe: "With a name like mine, I have something to live up to. When I marry, 3 must be bone,”
Pat said she was going to Patricia, 16, who gave up a stay home with mother. «hank job to run away with............ Joe said he was...“ going. 22 Jos, -23, Bald. “You can't ...... home to Karachi,
really be in love when you "Perhaps I will find the are always having rows right girl in Karachi,”<h and fights”
Bald UPI.
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